2026

Code Contribution and Credit in Science

Eva Maxfield Brown, Isaac Slaughter, Nicholas Weber

QSS (Quantitative Science Studies)

BibTeX
@article{brown2026code,
  author = {Brown, Eva Maxfield and Slaughter, Isaac and Weber, Nicholas},
  title = {Code Contribution and Credit in Science},
  journal = {Quantitative Science Studies},
  year = {2026},
  month = mar,
  pages = {1--20},
  doi = {10.1162/QSS.a.465},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.465},
  issn = {2641-3337},
  eprint = {https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/QSS.a.465/2586622/qss.a.465.pdf}
}

2025

Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective

Sarah Tran, Hongfan Lu, Isaac Slaughter, Bernease Herman, Aayushi Dangol, Yue Fu, Lufei Chen, Biniyam Gebreyohannes, Bill Howe, Alexis Hiniker, Nicholas Weber, Robert Wolfe

AIES (AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society)

BibTeX
@article{tran2025privacy,
  author = {Tran, Sarah and Lu, Hongfan and Slaughter, Isaac and Herman, Bernease and Dangol, Aayushi and Fu, Yue and Chen, Lufei and Gebreyohannes, Biniyam and Howe, Bill and Hiniker, Alexis and Weber, Nicholas and Wolfe, Robert},
  title = {Understanding Privacy Norms Around LLM-Based Chatbots: A Contextual Integrity Perspective},
  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society},
  year = {2025},
  month = oct,
  volume = {8},
  number = {3},
  pages = {2522--2534},
  doi = {10.1609/aies.v8i3.36735},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/36735}
}

Community Notes Reduce Engagement With and Diffusion of False Information Online

Isaac Slaughter, Axel Peytavin, Johan Ugander, Martin Saveski

PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

BibTeX
@article{slaughter2025community,
  author = {Slaughter, Isaac and Peytavin, Axel and Ugander, Johan and Saveski, Martin},
  title = {Community Notes Reduce Engagement With and Diffusion of False Information Online},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {122},
  number = {38},
  pages = {e2503413122},
  doi = {10.1073/pnas.2503413122},
  url = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2503413122},
  eprint = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2503413122}
}

Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders

Kshitish Ghate*, Isaac Slaughter*, Kyra Wilson, Mona Diab, Aylin Caliskan

NAACL (Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)

BibTeX
@inproceedings{ghate2025intrinsic,
  author = {Ghate, Kshitish and Slaughter, Isaac and Wilson, Kyra and Diab, Mona T. and Caliskan, Aylin},
  title = {Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  year = {2025},
  month = apr,
  address = {Albuquerque, New Mexico},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {2899--2915},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-long.148},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.148/},
  isbn = {979-8-89176-189-6}
}

Vessel trajectory prediction with recurrent neural networks: An evaluation of datasets, features, and architectures

Isaac Slaughter, Jagir Laxmichand Charla, Martin Siderius, John Lipor

JOES (Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science)

BibTeX
@article{slaughter2025vessel,
  author = {Slaughter, Isaac and Charla, Jagir Laxmichand and Siderius, Martin and Lipor, John},
  title = {Vessel trajectory prediction with recurrent neural networks: An evaluation of datasets, features, and architectures},
  journal = {Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {10},
  number = {2},
  pages = {229--238},
  doi = {10.1016/j.joes.2024.01.002},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468013324000081},
  issn = {2468-0133},
  keywords = {Automatic identification system, Maritime situational awareness, Recurrent neural networks, Vessel trajectory prediction}
}

2024

Investigating the Heterogeneous Effects of Community-Driven Fact-Checking on Social Media

Axel Peytavin, Isaac Slaughter, Johan Ugander, Martin Saveski

IC2S2 (International Conference on Computational Social Science)

BibTeX
@inproceedings{peytavin2024heterogeneous,
  author = {Peytavin, Axel and Slaughter, Isaac and Ugander, Johan and Saveski, Martin},
  title = {Investigating the Heterogeneous Effects of Community-Driven Fact-Checking on Social Media},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computational Social Science},
  year = {2024}
}

The Impact of iBuying is About More Than Just Racial Disparities: Evidence from Mecklenburg County, NC

Isaac Slaughter, Eva Maxfield Brown, Nic Weber

FAccT (ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency)

BibTeX
@inproceedings{slaughter2024ibuying,
  author = {Slaughter, Isaac and Brown, Eva Maxfield and Weber, Nic},
  title = {The Impact of iBuying is About More Than Just Racial Disparities: Evidence from Mecklenburg County, NC},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
  year = {2024},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  pages = {2086--2100},
  doi = {10.1145/3630106.3659027},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3659027},
  isbn = {9798400704505},
  numpages = {15},
  keywords = {Algorithm Auditing, Automated Valuation Models, Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling, Housing Discrimination, iBuying},
  location = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
  series = {FAccT '24}
}

Laboratory-Scale AI: Open-Weight Models are Competitive with ChatGPT Even in Low-Resource Settings

Robert Wolfe, Isaac Slaughter, Bin Han, Bingbing Wen, Yiwei Yang, Lucas Rosenblatt, Bernease Herman, Eva Maxfield Brown, Zening Qu, Nic Weber, Bill Howe

FAccT (ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency)

BibTeX
@inproceedings{wolfe2024laboratory,
  author = {Wolfe, Robert and Slaughter, Isaac and Han, Bin and Wen, Bingbing and Yang, Yiwei and Rosenblatt, Lucas and Herman, Bernease and Brown, Eva Maxfield and Qu, Zening and Weber, Nic and Howe, Bill},
  title = {Laboratory-Scale AI: Open-Weight Models are Competitive with ChatGPT Even in Low-Resource Settings},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency},
  year = {2024},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  pages = {1199--1210},
  doi = {10.1145/3630106.3658966},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658966},
  isbn = {9798400704505},
  numpages = {12},
  keywords = {ChatGPT, Chatbots, GPT-4, Generative AI, Language Models, Open Models, Transparency, qLoRA},
  location = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil},
  series = {FAccT '24}
}

2023

Pre-trained Speech Processing Models Contain Human-Like Biases that Propagate to Speech Emotion Recognition

Isaac Slaughter, Craig Greenberg, Reva Schwartz, Aylin Caliskan

EMNLP Findings (Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)

BibTeX
@inproceedings{slaughter2023speech,
  author = {Slaughter, Isaac and Greenberg, Craig and Schwartz, Reva and Caliskan, Aylin},
  title = {Pre-trained Speech Processing Models Contain Human-Like Biases that Propagate to Speech Emotion Recognition},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023},
  year = {2023},
  month = dec,
  address = {Singapore},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages = {8967--8989},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.602},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.602/}
}